KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man has died after being shot in Kansas City’s Oak Park Northwest neighborhood, police said.
The shooting happened Thursday afternoon, when officers were called to the area for a report of a man lying unresponsive in a person’s front yard, police said. Officers determined the man had been shot, and he died at the scene. His name was not immediately released.
The killing marked the 26th homicide in the city this year, compared with 31 homicides by this time in 2020, according to data kept by the Kansas City Star. Kansas City recorded 182 homicides in all of 2020, the most in the city’s history in a single year, the newspaper reported.